The seminary was located in Esslingen near Stuttgart in the
Kingdom of Württemberg. Jewish students studied at the seminary
from 1820 to 1928.

In 1995 Emily Rose met with Dr. Joachim Hahn in Germany.
Together they looked at the list of Jewish teachers he had
compiled. They found that Leopold Berlizheimer (her great
great grandfather’s brother, father of the
founder of the Berlitz School of Languages) and David
Gundelfinger (her great great grandmother’s cousin) had both studied at the seminary in the
1830s. After the visit, Emily was driving back to her vacation
apartment on the autobahn. Suddenly, she exclaimed, "That's
it!" That is how a marriage was arranged between her great great
grandfather David Berlizheimer and his second wife, Mina
Gundelfinger! A mystery that she had been pondering was now
solved.

This list provides useful
genealogical information. It is also a resource for the history
of the Jewish teachers and schools in the German countryside.

My thanks to Dr. Joachim Hahn who was kind
enough to give me permission to include his very thorough
research on this web site. The material was originally published
in: Dr. Joachim Hahn, Jüdisches Leben in Esslingen. (Sigmaringen:
Thorbecke, 1994).